She received a B.A.

She received a B.A. She received a B.A.

Watch Maidie Norman on DIRECTV. Find out when and where you can watch Maidie Norman movies and tv shows with the full listings schedule at TVGuide.com. Her first film was The Burning Cross (1948), a sincere if low-budget attack on the KKK in which she played the wife of that ubiquitous black character actor Joel Fluellen. She also attended the Actors Lab in Hollywood from 1946 to 1949.

At the same time, Norman was highly visible on television, appearing in Mannix, Adam 12, Streets of San Francisco, Kung Fu, The Jeffersons, and others.

She received a B.A.

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TV Show ∙ Sep 27, 1986 Amen Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part of a wave of successful sitcoms on NBC in the 1980s and early 1990s which featured predominantly black casts – others included The Cosby Show, A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and 227.

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Log in. She also attended the Actors Lab in Hollywood from 1946 to 1949. But once such films were labelled as "leftist" by the Communist hunters of the era, Maidie found herself accepting more and more roles where she played subserviently to white stars.

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She was also part of the cast of Roots: The Next Generation in 1979. Most of Maidie's film assignments have been as domestics of some sort or other, which was unfortunately to be expected in the white-bread '50s; a handful of the actress' role were, however, wholly worthy of her talents.

TV Show ∙ Sep 28, 1961 Hazel The five-season, 154-episode series aired in prime time from September 28, 1961, to April 11, 1966, and was produced by Screen Gems.

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from Bennett College in 1934 and a master's degree from Columbia University three years later.

from Bennett College in 1934 and a master's degree from Columbia University three years later.

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Maidie Norman was born Maidie Ruth Gamble on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis and Lila Gamble. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.

... Joan Crawford and Bette Davis starred with her in the the 1962 thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

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Maidie Norman, who played a black servant in ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?''